Hnil's Buncha Stuff

[rtil]

i hadn't heard of it until last night . pretty much an all-star team working on that game. i have no choice but to chip in.

[Hnilmik]

[Hnilmik]

THIS IS GOING TO BE A BITCH TO ATTEMPT COLORING SOMEDAY AND I'M NOT EVEN DONE DRAWING YET

I'M BEGINNING TO UNDERSTAND HOW CERTAIN ARTISTS CAN SPEND DAYS ON A PIECE NOW



dsghkljsdghakhksdjh ungulate legs and dealing with foreshortening problems await me

[rtil]

cool perspective

[Hnilmik]

Torn on whether the legs are working with or against the piece as a whole... If they take away from the "impact", I might artistically crop them or remove them, seeing as she mainly use her hooves as brakes. They're meant to mostly dangle when she flies/floats around. She wears heels in her human form because they feel the most like her zebra-legs~

She usually has crazier, more interesting looking stripes for her arms, but I thought they'd be too much of a pain to keep consistent should she be animated someday. If I'm particularly masochistic, I'd want to try pulling off a Chesire Cat effect with the stripes since she has a tendency to go in and out of invisibility... For crying out loud, I heard only the best Disney animators could animate tigers like Shere Khan and Raja because of their stripes... Ah well. I might try zig-zags instead later; I hope they don't end up looking too similar to another character's tiger-like "sleeve tattoos".

Another option is to nix the stripes altogether since her human form's arms don't have any.

[Sinitron]

oh right i almost forgot you made some cool things

[Hnilmik]

WIP 2nd Ms. Fortune fanart attempt, pass 3.

Took care of some anatomy errors I noticed, and made an adjustment or two based on suggestions, or the ones I knew how to manage, anyways.

For the time being, I can't really think of anything else to fix (except for maybe the belt), so the next passes may be the final lines and colors. If there're errors I've missed, please point them out and offer suggestions on how to fix it!

[zwimmy]

awesome

[Hnilmik]

Thanks!

And the orange-lines aren't mine, but my friend did 'em to help me figure out the cylinders formed by her scars, and better see what rtil mentioned previously that I had trouble conceptualizing~ Felt like sharing, in case there were other folks who browse other art threads to learn stuff.

Basically just loosened up the pose a little. Also, watch the stitches on her left arm so that they show the volume.

[Hnilmik]

This'd only be a quick sketch to keep my hands in shape, I said...

I have other WIP drawings to work on, so this should just be a simple doodle, I said...



UGH. THEN, THE CHARACTER GOT TOO FUN TO DRAW AGAIN. AND CHALLENGING. I initially wanted to draw her strangling a victim (i.e. the viewer/you), but not only was that too hard for me to draw (at the moment), but in-story... VERY few characters are actually large enough to be strangle-able, so I took the opportunity art what might as well be one of her scenes.

I didn't really think this one through, so... Count on her arms being fixed because of the crappy foreshortening/perspective (despite her capability to detach herself, to an extent), slapping myself into learning to properly draw floating cloth, and trying to figure out how to better convey depth. And death.

[Sinitron]

look toots, that's all nice and well, but i still pronounce your name as "hurgh-nil-mick" like wtf yo!!

anyway if you can't get the pose right, don't start erasing right away; toss down a bunch of quick sketches until you get something that looks more correct, and try to adjust and mimic that instead

[Hnilmik]

anyway if you can't get the pose right, don't start erasing right away; toss down a bunch of quick sketches until you get something that looks more correct, and try to adjust and mimic that instead

Thanks. Erasing right away does sound like what I've been doing, since I'm getting used to basically drawing in a new way after ditching pen and paper for half a year now, so I'll give more rough/quick sketches a go over "complete sketches as passes". It also sounds less tedious than what I've been doing!

[Hnilmik]

Unfortunately, the most accurate depiction of how I get around LA. Without a car.

[Evelynn]

I would never hitch hike in LA, I'm sorry you live there :<

[slack]

only spite can get away with hitchhiking

[Sinitron]

LA is a hellhole GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN

...IF YOU CAN

[Evelynn]

[GhostingFish]

Unfortunately, the most accurate depiction of how I get around LA. Without a car.

Haha, I can't get over this picture at all! xD

and now I will purge your thread for the entire year of posts that I missed out on o-o

Keep it up!

[slack]

purge ain't the right word but i think we all know what you meant

[GhostingFish]

purge ain't the right word but i think we all know what you meant

Oh shit! I went to look up the word "purge" to see if I had made a spelling error, but then I read the definition of it... Well, now I know that I've been misusing a word all my life.. sorry about that Hnilmik.